Carnival - Brossura

Antoni, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571227856 ISBN 13: 9780571227853

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2006

Riassunto

William Fletcher is an aspiring novelist who has come to New York to escape his affluent West Indian roots.

A chance meeting in a Greenwich Village bar reunites him with two of his childhood companions: Laurence, who left the poverty of his village to become an Oxford scholar and poet, and the vivacious Rachel, William's second cousin and first love. Together the three make a liquor-soaked pledge to return 'home' to Trinidad for the annual carnival. As the festival's ecstasy slides into a fog of ganja, alcohol, and endless calypso beat, Rachel casts her eyes on Eddoes, member of the isolated, Rastafarian-like Earth People, and the year's young and scandalous carnival King. Eddoes has escaped his sequestered life in the mysterious Hell Valley for a few days of excitement. It is to this remote place that the group goes to cool down after the festival.

In the rainforest they hope for a secret paradise from which to begin anew. But even here the demons of history, prejudice, and hatred violently intrude, as the novel's startling conclusion forces all to face both the power - and impotence - of human resilience and human love.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

A brilliantly realised portrait of our very own 'lost generation', Carnival is a fantastically seductive and intelligent novel by one of the most exciting writers of the Caribbean diaspora.

L'autore:

Robert Antoni is the author of three novels, Divina Trace (Winner of the Commonwealth Best Novel Award), Blessed is the Fruit, and My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0571227856
• ISBN 13: 9780571227853
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256